Forests: ecosystems that help preserve biodiversity
Layered structure, the water cycle, soil, and fragmentation: why forests concentrate so much life and what threatens that balance.
The role of protected areas in conserving biodiversity, how their use rules work and what to expect from a visit.

Parks and other protected areas exist to reconcile two functions that coexist in tension: conserving ecosystems and allowing people to experience them. Understanding that logic helps you visit better.
Here we cover protection categories, zoning, interpretive trails and what the conservation of forests, wetlands and natural grasslands means in practice.
Layered structure, the water cycle, soil, and fragmentation: why forests concentrate so much life and what threatens that balance.
How protected areas work, what zoning means, why visiting rules exist, and what role the visitor plays in that system.
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